Honours BBA (WLU) and Honours Bachelor of Computer Science (UW)

This double degree program is administered jointly by the School of Business & Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU) and the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo (UW). It is a restricted-enrolment program with admission normally limited to Year 1 in a fall (September-to-December) term.

Students who successfully complete this program will be eligible to attend both universities' convocation ceremonies and be awarded a WLU Honours BBA degree and a UW Honours BCS degree at the respective convocations. Students may register for this program at either university. The academic component is the same, regardless of where students are formally registered, but students participate in the co-op process at their home institution. Thus, the degree attached to each student's registered university is a degree with a Co-op Optiondesignation, with the other university's degree being a regular-stream parchment.

This academic program cannot be combined with any other major. It requires a minimum of 9 full-time academic study terms and successful completion of a minimum of 52 one-term (0.5-credit) courses. Most students require 10 full time terms to complete the program. The 52 0.5-credit courses must include 24 specified business-related 0.5 credits taken at WLU and 24 specified mathematics and computer science 0.5 credits at UW. The remaining 4 0.5-credit electives may be taken at either university.

After Year 1, WLU-registered students who remain eligible to
continue their studies in the double degree program are required to participate
in the Co-op Option. Refer to the “Co-operative Education” section later in
this chapter. The WLU co-op process involves three (or four at a student's
discretion) co-op work terms intermixed with the 9 study terms, beginning with
a first co-op work term in the January-to-April period between the third and
fourth study terms. The earlier May-to-August term between the second and third
study terms is an "off" term (where students are on their own for the
term, similar to regular-stream students).

For UW-registered students, the co-op process involves four
(or five at a student's discretion) co-op work terms intermixed with the 9
study terms. The first of these work terms occurs during the May-to-August period
between the second and third study terms, thus replacing the corresponding
"off" term for WLU-registered students by an extra work term. With
this one exception of the first May-to-August period, the term sequencing for
UW-registered students is identical to the one for WLU-registered students.

With the sequencing of study terms and work terms indicated
above, the normal duration for this program is four and two-thirds calendar
years (or five calendar years at a student's discretion). Only under especially
mitigating circumstances, and with the approval of both universities, can the
term sequencing attached to the double degree program be altered, and such
instances will usually result in a delay (possibly as much as one calendar
year) of the graduation date.

All double degree program students, regardless of
their home university affiliation, are required to satisfy all term-by-term
progression requirements of both Laurier's School of Business & Economics
and UW's Faculty of Mathematics to remain eligible to continue in the program,
and to meet all graduation requirements of both institutions to be eligible for
the two degrees. More specifically, students must ensure that their course
selection each term, their academic performance level, and their academic
conduct in general, comply with all the policies, procedures, regulations and
requirements of both universities. Failure to do so will normally result in
students being required to withdraw from the double degree program. Such
students may remain eligible to enrol in the (single degree) Laurier BBA
program (although not necessarily in the Co-op Option) or to enrol in another
appropriate (single degree) UW BCS or BMath plan respectively, depending upon
their individual circumstances. Special
circumstances do exist for the double degree program including the allowance
for 2.5 course credit repeats, instead of the traditional 2.0 course credit
repeats allowed in the Honours BBA (WLU) program. In addition, any student who must satisfy UW progression standards and repeat a Math course they have passed will have the original course deemed an extra on the WLU student record. This only applies when the non-BU GPA requirement for progression has been satisfied.

GPA requirements for both Business and
non-Business courses must be achieved by August 31 for progression into Year 2.
10 0.5-credits by August 31 with not more than 12 course attempts. All credits taken during Year 1 will be
included in the GPA requirements for progression into Year 2.

Under certain circumstances, MATH 137 and MATH
138 may be replaced by MATH 127 and MATH 128 respectively. Refer to the
UW Calendar.

It is recommended that students complete at least
21 0.5-credit courses by the end of Year 2, either by taking 6 courses
in one of their study terms, or by taking an elective course via Online
Learning during an off term or a co-op term.

Students
may take CS 115 and CS 116 in place of CS 135, or if needed they may taken CS 116 after CS 135 and before CS 136. Students who take CS 116 in the Winter term in Year 1 must take CS 136 in the
Fall term in Year 2 and CS 245 and CS 246 in the Spring term of Year 2.

Students
who successfully complete CS 145 in the Fall term of Year 1 may not
take either CS 116 or CS 136, but instead should take any required
second year CS course in the
Winter term of that year. Such students must later take an additional
300- or 400- level CS major course to replace the missing CS course
credit.

Economics
Minor: EC120; EC140; one of EC250, EC260 - taken in Year 2 (refer to i
and ii below); three additional Economics courses approved by the
double degree program advisor from WLU (refer to iii below): i) UW's
ECON 201 and ECON 202, taken either on campus or by Online Learning,
may be substituted for WLU's EC260 and EC250 respectively. ii) If both
EC250 (or ECON 202) and EC260 (or ECON 201) are taken, only two
additional Economics courses are required. iii) The "three additional
Economics courses" may be any mix of approved EC courses from WLU and
ECON courses from UW. These courses may be taken either on campus or
(when available) by Online Learning.

Mathematics Minor: the
Faculty of Science will permit students who have completed two years of
study in the above double degree program, but who subsequently decide
to drop their affiliation with University of Waterloo, to obtain a
mathematics minor with the BBA degree if they complete a minimum of 1.0
senior mathematics credits on the WLU campus. Students must still have
completed the required courses, or their equivalents, in such a way
that 3.5 credits constitute the minor.

For details about the various
UW Honours BMath policies, procedures, regulations and requirements
that apply to this double degree program, consult the UW Undergraduate
Calendar and/or one of UW's academic program advisors.